The most Powerful PC possible?

[FEN1X]

OK, so in a hypothetical situation, where one had enough money, resources and skill. What would me the most powerful home PC that could be built with todays technology.
You may overclock, but only going as far as the best overclocker has done to date, it must also be stable.
You may use any technology, brand, shop etc as long as its actually possible.


Oh, and the winner gets a rep point :D

[Darkmag]

If money is no option you can just buy a supercomputer, like bluegene/L.

[FEN1X]

If money is no option you can just buy a supercomputer, like bluegene/L.

But wheres the fun in that? :p

[cov1e_stalker]

Intell Skulltrail with 8 core (2x4) CPU , 8 Gigs of ram and (i think) 4 Nvidia 9800 Gx2. The amount of HDD's are limited by PSU.

[Kensei]

Only modern technology...

Damn, I was going to say a quantum PC :D

[KFC]

Intell Skulltrail with 8 core (2x4) CPU , 8 Gigs of ram and (i think) 4 Nvidia 9800 Gx2. The amount of HDD's are limited by PSU.

Yeah, you already get a 4 slot MB. Perhaps a 8gig DDR3 RAM hehe:P

[Gazza_N]

What about the legendary "sweet sixteen"? Four quad-core processors, designed for 3D rendering and server applications. I'd totally get that.

[CrashHelmut]

Ok, here is my concept of the most powerfull PC with today's technology for playing games (especially Crysis) and other multimedia tasks (you did say home PC).

Motherboard: NVidia 790i 3-way SLI. (The Skulltrail uses 800MHz FB-DIMM memory, which is generally slower than DDR3 memory).
CPU: Intel QX9770 processor.
Memory: 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3.
Graphics: 2x NVidia 9800 GX2. (For sweet sweet Quad-SLI goodness).
Hard Drives: 2x Western Digitial 300GB Velociraptor Drives. (In Stripey Raid Config).
More Hard Drives: Add a pair of 1TB drives for backups.
PSU: Any 1000+ Watt PSU. Hell, nobody said you cannot have 2 PSUs. Spread the load.
Casing: Whatever is big enough to fit all the parts in.

[eros]

http://www.digitalnewsagency.com/story/view/240-worlds-most-powerful-home-super-computer-unveiled/all

Or Xtreme-X2 Supercomputer - with Quad Core Opteron processors

Or simply use the Grid Computing concept to link together all the computers in your home, your neighborhood or how far your networking contacts reach.

[KFC]

****. This truly is the Dream-Machine :D

[Frozenfireside]

I would buy a PC that is quiet. I would replace all the cheap ass fans in the chassie and install the worlds best fans-Sharkoon.

Then I would get a machine that wouldn't settle Ethiopias world debt in cost-Price is everything when technology moves so god damn fast.

I just want a huge ass TV to use with it above anything else.

[Machine]

What about water-cooling or does that have too many maintenance issues?

Surely that is quieter than fan cooling, isn't it?